The
presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.), has confirmed that he will honour his speaking
engagement at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham
House, London, on Thursday, February 26.
According to a press statement from the Directorate of Media and
Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO),
Chatham House will post the event and send out invites on Monday,
February 23.
The statement, signed by the APC campaign spokesperson Garba Shehu,
disclosed that as part of his ongoing engagement in the United Kingdom,
Mr. Buhari had an interview Friday with a local medium, the “All Eyes on
Africa TV Show”, with Kemi Fajodutimi and met with former British Prime
Minister, Mr. Tony Blair on Saturday, February 21.
Shehu also disclosed that Buhari left the London residence of the
Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, at about 1.30 pm U.K.
time and returned to his rented flat in the city.
Meanwhile, the APCPCO has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to
call one of his party’s governors, Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, to
order over his continued pestering of Mr. Buhari, with falsehood and
death wishes.
The campaign organization said the APC had learnt on good authority
that Governor Fayose has hired people in London, whose job it is to
trail the movements of the former head of state while on his working
visit in London.
Gov. Fayose, who is one of the most vocal opponents of the APC
presidential candidate, went to the extent of sponsoring front-page
death wish advertorials insinuating that Buhari would die in office
like some former heads of state of Northern extraction did.
“Let it be on record that knowing Governor Fayose’s antecedents, we
are not leaving anything to chances. The Governor who has published
death-wish advertorials on Buhari will stop at nothing. If anything
should happen to General Muhammadu Buhari while in London or anywhere,
the authorities over there in the UK and at home should know who to hold
responsible”, he said.
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